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The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has taken a neutral position on assisted suicide for the first time in its history, despite opposition among GPs increasing in recent years. A poll of GPs found that only a third of GPs support legalisation. A poll of thousands of UK GPs…
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Researchers attending the Infant Consciousness Conference, 28 February to 1 March, in New York have concluded that recent evidence indicates that fetal consciousness might begin before 24 weeks gestation. The event was sponsored by New York University. A survey of conference delegates assessing evidence of fetal consciousness found that forty-seven…
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President Donald Trump’s nominee for Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has pledged to ban the use of aborted baby remains being used by research funds. Nominee Jay Bhattacharya was speaking at a Senate committee hearing into his nomination when he said he’d reinstate the prohibition that had…
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BMA consultants have voted in favour of a motion stating that assisted suicide is not healthcare and presents “serious moral hazards to consultants”.
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The MP committee scrutinising Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill has voted to scrap the High Court judge safeguard that would have required a higher level of judicial sign-off.
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Labour MPs have indicated that they may use a government bill to push for abortion to be removed from criminal law.
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Despite being gravely ill in hospital, Pope Francis called on all people to take up the cause of the unborn around the world.
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Actress Ione Skye, 54, has claimed in a new memoir that Anthony Kiedis, the lead singer of the band Red Hot Chili Peppers, paid for her to have an abortion when she was 17.
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Gove said that praying silently inside a buffer zone could not be considered “genuine intimidation”.
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Livia Tossici-Bolt, 63, is on trial for standing with a sign that read, “Here to talk, if you want to”, near an abortion facility in Bournemouth.
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MP Kit Malthouse has attempted to censor the backlash after an assisted suicide committee rejected an amendment that would have stopped doctors from suggesting suicide to people with Down’s syndrome.
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Stuart Worby has had his jail sentence increased by five years following his case’s referral to the Court of Appeal by the Solicitor General.
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Official statistics for 2023/24 show the biggest percentage rise in abortion ever seen in the UK.
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Student midwife Sara Spencer was placed on special leave and subjected to an investigation after posting her pro-life views on social media.